Samstag, 29. Mai 2010

"Animal Wisdom"a solo exhibition by Nicoz Balboa.In Nicoz Balboa’s Illustrations there are living girlies with red airs, vintage-style boots and balloon-sleeved dresses and skirts and SM leather masks. This Girlies are mysterious, silent and quite often good friends with anthropomorphic animals, also very silent. Nicoz likes to create a world which doesn’t exist, but in which she would like to live in…. and also many of us. She imagines herself travelling on the back of a magic three-eyed white bear or with a deer of the EnchantedForest, she sees these Girlies, dressed like a bunch of SadoMaso Alices in Wonderland going to the King’s ball.

To illustrate the discussion various bizarre fantasies were projected on the wall, while next to the stage Sweden's interested youth went up and down escalators.

Unfortunately I missed the panel about feminist comics, because I had to give a lecture about electrocomics at the same time in another library in town. Thanks Gabrielle Bell (US) has a drawn report about it on her blog >>>

Kristiina Kolehmainen, organizer of the festival and the comics library in Stockholm, with the two french representants of Les Requins Marteaux, Frederic and Thomas, before the opening ceremony. The evening before they presented a screening of the film "Villemolle 81" by Whinshluss.

Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010

The autobio-graphic novel "Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest Deines Lebens" (partially prepublished on electrocomics.com) creates quite some interest in other countries. Italian, French and Spanish versions are in preparation. The books seems to be especially anticipated in Italy (coming out in October 2010, at Rizzoli), as we noticed during our visit at Naples for my exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Napoli. The opening was last week, during and co-organized by the Comicon Napoli festival.

Me, wearing a blue coat I found at a Berlin antique shop. It was hand woven in New Mexico (by El Grandee) and arrived 1948 via airlift during the Berlin blockade.

The old lady on the left is a famous Italian intellectual (name???), in the middle the charming Johanna Wand, who organized the exhibition at the Goethe-Institut.

fabulous Alina, one of the organizers of the Comicon festival, and Kai Pfeiffer

Earlier this year, a Persian journalist had asked me for an interview, because of my experiences travelling through an archaic patriarchal society I tell about in my book. It was very special for me to answer his questions, because of the political situation in Iran, of course. For everyone who understands Persian, here is the link.http://zamaaneh.com/khaak/2010/01/publish_at_22012010.html